Who We Are
Engineering Outcomes Since 2011
About Us
Since 2011, Sakura Sky has engineered cloud, data, and security platforms that hold up under load, under regulation, and over time. We have been shipping applied machine learning on top of this core since 2015, long before the current AI wave made it fashionable.
Done right, the platform is the leverage and your data is the asset. Teams ship faster because the foundation does not fight them, data flows where it needs to, governed where it should be, and security is enforced by the architecture, not bolted on after a finding. Our ML and AI expertise enables outcomes from these foundations, and compliance, when it matters, becomes a deployment artefact rather than a year-end scramble.
We work with clients across four continents and across the full maturity range. For startups, SMBs, and scaleups, that means expertise on tap and platforms built to move at their pace. For mid-market and global enterprises under material regulatory exposure, it means engineering depth that holds up under audit. Our delivery focus does not change with scale.
What We Do
Capabilities, Solutions, and Services
Capabilities
Cloud
Cloud-native engineering with more than a decade of production delivery behind it. Resilient, cost-disciplined platforms across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-prem.
Data & AI
Data engineering, analytics, applied machine learning, and agentic AI. We help organisations of every size turn data into business outcomes.
Security
Data security first. From there, the AI workloads on top of that data, the cloud platforms underneath, and the controls that hold the whole thing together.
Solutions
Accelerate
Our structured framework for rapidly delivering production-ready Cloud, Data, or Security solutions.
Enclave
Multi-project cloud organisations with governance enforced at the core, driven by Infrastructure as Code from day one.
Sentinel
AI and data security governance with runtime monitoring, policy-as-code, drift detection, and verifiable audit trails.
Praxis
Engineered compliance for GDPR, the EU AI Act, the EU Data Act, and MiCA.
Services
Managed Services
CloudOps, DataOps, MLOps, and security operations across cloud, data, and AI platforms.
Professional Services
Senior engineers embedded in your platform work, building systems your team can own and extend.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Engineered compliance as the outcome of well-built cloud, data, and security.
What Sets Us Apart
Why Sakura
Engineered, not orchestrated
We treat the running system as the deliverable, not the documents about it. Whether the engagement is regulatory, growth-led, or a mix of both, the standard is the same: it works, it scales, and your team can run it after we leave.
Multi-disciplinary by design
Cloud, data, and security come from the same team. You stop coordinating handoffs between specialists who only see their slice, and you get architecture decisions made with all three perspectives at the table.
Experience that leads
Senior engineers lead every engagement. The people you meet in scoping are the people who design and build the system. We invest in the next generation too, with internship programmes including our long-running skills and development partnerships.
Long-form delivery
Our clients keep us through multiple platform generations. We hand over runnable systems your team can own and extend. We are there to enable, not to entrench.
Open frameworks
We build on open source where it earns its place and best-in-class commercial tools where they carry their weight. The standards we align to are public, the frameworks we use are open, and the engineering you take ownership of stays yours.
Published thinking
We publish the frameworks our clients hire us on, from The Autonomous Horizon to The Trustworthy Agentic AI Blueprint to Signal-to-Noise. You can read the thinking before the engagement starts.
A History of Innovation
Our Journey
2011
Founded in Australia with a ‘Cloud First’ mission, ahead of most enterprises adopting the cloud.
2015 - 2016
Global expansion into The Hague and Los Angeles. Appointed Google Cloud Platform Partner, established the Asian Centre of Excellence for Apache Cassandra, and began shipping applied machine learning to clients.
2017 - 2019
Launched specialised Cybersecurity practice and opened San Francisco Tech Hub on Mission Street.
2020
Expanded into Tallinn, Estonia and launched the University of Waterloo intern program.
2021 - 2022
Appointed Google Workspace Reseller. Celebrated 10 years of AWS delivery. Opened Madison Avenue, New York City office.
2023
Transitioned to a 100% remote work environment. Formed strategic global partnerships with GitLab, DigitalOcean, and Tigera (Project Calico).
2024
Moved San Francisco Tech Hub to Geary Street. Launched Databricks implementation services.
2025
Opened Amsterdam office. Published The Trustworthy Agentic AI Blueprint and The Executive AI Playbook, the strategic foundation for the 2026 framework wave.
2026
Published The Autonomous Horizon strategic series and Signal-to-Noise, the AI security tooling checklist. Launched Sentinel and Praxis, both aligned to the open GATE framework. Opened the Governance, Risk & Compliance service line.